This late 19th or early 20th century trunk belonged to Mrs. Katharine Bulkeley Lawrence. According to the March 31, 1948 edition of the “Newport Daily News” she was a summer colonist who divded her time between her Bellevue Avenue residence and her New Jersey residence. She made Newport her primary residence upon the death of her husband, Prescott Lawrence, who was a founder and member of the executive committee of the Newport Horse Show from 1896 to 1921.
